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- # Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 John W. Eaton
- #
- # This file is part of Octave.
- #
- # Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- # under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
- # Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
- # later version.
- #
- # Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
- # ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
- # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
- # for more details.
- #
- # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- # along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
- # Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
- function dump_1_pref (file, var)
-
- if (nargin != 2)
- usage ("dump_1_pref (file, var)");
- endif
-
- eval (sprintf ("tmp = %s;", var));
-
- if (isstr (tmp))
- fprintf (file, " %s = \"%s\"\n", var, undo_string_escapes (tmp));
- elseif (is_scalar (tmp))
- fprintf (file, " %s = %g\n", var, tmp);
- else
- fprintf (file, " %s = \"wrong type arg\"\n", var);
- endif
-
- endfunction
-